How did your friends get you in trouble when you were younger? once when I was six a friends older brother started a fire and made my friend and I unwilling accomplices.

If you are about to enter a room full of total strangers, what song would you want played to accompany your entrance? Spottieottiedopalicious

What's under your bed? ha, that's a trick question

Name three things you shouldn't have eaten. Taco Bell that one time, a whole pint of mango ice cream, all those hot dogs over the years (a.k.a. 'mystery meat')

Who are your favorite authors and why? Thoreau, Emerson, Hawthorne, Poe, I seem to have a strange affinity for 19th century New England writers, though mostly I read non-fiction

What is the first thing you read in the Austin Chronicle? the cover

I consider myself an open-minded person, but my deal breakers are deal breakers and those who deal from the bottom of the deck

Something I said I'd never do but did anyway was try internet dating

The first section I turn to in the Chronicle is generally I flip through from front to back, otherwise live shows

The quickest way to my heart is no bullshit The quickest way to my bed is make lovey eyes And in the morning, I like my eggs cooked scrambled, though I usually just bust a yoke in the pan and fry it

It's Sunday morning at 10 a.m. If I'm not still sleeping, I'm reading, milling around my apartment, getting some exercise outdoors, eating a breakfast taco somewhere, kicking off my (and my neighbors) morning with some inspiring rock anthems on my acoustic guitar, or just lounging outside

When I die, I believe I will go ... 'I' is an illusion we call the self or ego, but it will probably be to another, higher dimension

I wouldn't be who I am if had never been in love, or never experienced the pain of losing it

I wouldn't sell a lie for a billion dollars.

If people are what they eat, I is a lot of things

Whole Foods or Wheatsville

Beatles or Stones

Casket or Cremation

Stubb's or Emo's

Chronicle or Statesman

Wireless or Landline

South Congress or North Loop